This essay explores the presentation of everyday urban spaces marked by neoliberal practices in a selection of works by Peruvian poets Roxana Crisólogo, Victoria Guerrero and Ericka Ghershi. The spaces invoked in their poems are oftentimes the protagonists, either direct or obliquely, that condition their inhabitants and impose a perpetual unrest upon them. The resulting poem endeavors to slow down the systemic haste via individual reflection in a here and now of writing and reading.